Posted by Joelle on December 05, 2013

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.• Joan Didion •
(b. 1934)

Posted by Joelle on December 02, 2013

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there'??s no feeling like it.• T.C. Boyle •
(b. 1948)

Posted by Joelle on November 27, 2013

I grew up in a house that didn’t have very many children’s books, but going to the library was very important to my mother, and we went to the library the same way you’d go to the grocery store or to school. So it was part of life. And I grew up loving books.• Kevin Henkes •
(b. 1960)